About

Sandy McFarlane studied Fine Art at the Arts University Bournemouth, where he first started painting abstracts.

Abstract paintings use the interaction between colour, line and shape to pull the painting together (similar to composition in representational work). Looking at an abstract painting is more about how it makes you feel and what attracts your attention, be it the colours, the shapes or both. The painting has to feel balanced, all the individual parts of the painting need to gel together. A good abstract painting draws you in and the more you look at it the more you see.

Sandys abstract paintings are inspired by imagination, shapes full of colour and lines that are not straight. The titles of his paintings are a personal analysis of each work that deliberately leaves room for the viewers own interpretation. He likes the idea that anyone looking at his paintings bring their own individual experiences and thinking to bear upon what they see in front of them.

Every painting is one off as no prints or copies are made, therefore each painting truly is a unique individual.